c39884 No.15718
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The Use of pellicula = 'whore' in farce (Varro Ling. 7.84 'in Atellanis licet animaduertere rusticos dicere se adduxisse pro scor-to pelliculam') reflects the same semantic development as that of scortum (cf. Fr..peau, peau de chien)4). Pellis (and hence pellicula), like scortum, originally of course indicated animal hide rather than human skin. Pellicula 'whore' survives in Spanish (pelleja). Jer-ome uses it at Epist. 130.19.1 (`peregrini murss olentes pelliculas'), either as a current vulgarism or perhaps as a recherché term taken from Varro.
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